Erika Slezak Quotes
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
Quotes to Explore
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.
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After that it took me a little bit to get back on track.
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Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
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Free will is an empty term.
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I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
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The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
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I think there is a classy way to go about changing people's views about how they treat animals, and that is with compassion, strategic moves, and passing laws to protect animals, not throwing paint and flour on people. That only turns them away from your whole purpose of helping those without a voice.
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If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
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When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.
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There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.
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Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.
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It’s been a long, long time since I seen your face. Take that loaded gun away.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.
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Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.
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It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.
